A controversy over foreign funding of NGOs that attack Israel – including a Palestinian group that publishes material glamorizing suicide bombers and promoting anti-Semitic libels – has been rekindled by a wide-ranging watchdog group report outlining German funding for such groups. Titled “German Funding for Political Advocacy NGOs Active in...

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Thursday that Washington would not offer sanctions relief to Iran in the absence of “concrete steps” to address international concerns over its nuclear program, which roughly half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions have called for dismantling. “We are not contemplating anything that removes...

Washington Post associate editor David Ignatius expressed surprise yesterday at what he described as “the White House’s inability to convey [to Saudi Arabia]… desired reassurances” regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East, declaring that the Obama administration’s “lack of communication with the Saudis and other Arab allies is mystifying.” He...

Iran has publicly signaled that the international community’s demands that it halt enrichment, codified in half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions, is a non-starter. The New York Times has explained that Iran has installed thousands of new centrifuges in the last year, many of them more sophisticated than...

Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer last week made his first speech since taking up his post. The speech took place in Los Angeles and among other things outlined the contours of what a deal over Iran’s nuclear program would have to contain to robustly assure that Iran...

Saudi Arabia intends to scale back the degree to which it cooperates with the United States in arming and training Syrian rebels, a decision that comes amid what the Wall Street Journal describes as “a growing dispute between the U.S. and one of its closest Arab allies over Syria, Iran and Egypt...